Yesterday we wrote about Kristen Dewald killing her husband – a University of Houston professor – after hearing voices.
Dewald's next hearing is scheduled for December 3, and it seems likely the judge will issue a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict.
A psychiatrist with the Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, Dr. Matthew Leddy, found that Dewald was legally insane at the time of the killing, according to documents in the case file. Also, a stipulated ins
Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.
Photo courtesy Montgomery County Sheriff's OfficeMatthew Leddy, a local psychologist, was arrested late last month for theft and Medicaid fraud, accused of billing for work that he didn't perform, according to articles in the Houston Chronicle and the Conroe Courier. The articles don't mention, however, that Leddy was working for the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County and testified in criminal trials that resulted in at least one man getting a lengthy prison sentence
Photo Courtesy of Montgomery County Sheriff's OfficeLast month we reported on the arrest of Matthew Leddy, a psychologist working for the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County. His arrest, for alleged Medicaid fraud and theft, caught our attention because he evaluated defendants in two criminal cases we wrote about last year. It turns out that Leddy did a lot more work than that, evaluating close to 1,000 defendants during his two and a half years working for MHMRA,
